9 people have been shot in Raleigh, one fatally, since Saturday
Three more people were shot in less than 24 hours, Raleigh police reported Monday, after six others were injured by gun violence Saturday, one of them fatally.
Nearly all those injured were wounded in the foot or leg.
Police responded to a call at 2:11 p.m. Monday on Granite Street. A man shot in the foot was taken to the hospital, according to a news release. Investigators determined he had been shot on Wexford Drive.
Earlier Monday, a man walked in to WakeMed at about 2 a.m. with a gunshot wound in his right leg, police stated.
And at 5:06 p.m. Sunday police responded to a 17-year-old shot who also had been shot in the leg, on Dorothea Drive, according to police and ABC11.
The latest shootings followed gun violence that killed one man and injured five others on Saturday, The News & Observer reported.
As of Monday afternoon, police had not reported any arrests or whether any of the shootings were related.
“Detectives always look into the possibility that incidents are connected,” spokeswoman Donna-maria Harris wrote in an email Saturday. “I’m confident that they are doing the same in this case.”
The fatal shooting was reported Saturday afternoon. At 3:49 p.m. officers responded to a call on Poole Road and found a man who had been shot. He died at the hospital of multiple gunshot wounds, police said.
Here are the other shootings, all reported Saturday:
▪ At 12:58 a.m., officers responded to a report of a gunshot victim who walked in at WakeMed after being shot in the foot, according to a Police Department tweet. The shooting took place on South Fisher Street.
▪ At 1:49 a.m. officers responding to a call on Capital Boulevard found three people shot, a woman shot in the leg and two men, according to the Tweet and a news release. One of the men had multiple bullet wounds; the other had been shot in the face.
▪ At 2:55 a.m., a man walked into Duke Raleigh Hospital on Wake Forest Road with a gunshot wound to the foot, police said. He reported being shot on Greencastle Court.
Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin expects to receive an update from the Police Department soon.
“June is Prevent Gun Violence month,” Baldwin said Monday. “During the early stages of COVID-19, we were not seeing much violent crimes, especially gun-related. And all of the sudden this is happening again.
“It’s a real concern,” she said. “And I know that we have had conversations as a city (about) how do we deal with this. But, also, it’s a country-wide situation.”
To report information about the shootings, call Raleigh CrimeStoppers at 919-834-HELP or go to raleighcrimestoppers.org.
Staff writer Anna Johnson contributed to this story.
This story was originally published June 29, 2020 at 9:46 AM.
